Court Orders NYPD To Pay $360,000 For Raid That Destroyed Occupy Wall Street Library

By Michael Kelley, Business Insider

A New York City court has ruled that the city shall pay $366,700 for a destructive raid on Occupy Wall Street’s Zuccotti Park encampment.

Around 1 a.m. on Nov. 15, 2011, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg ordered the NYPD to evict protestors — some of whom had camped there for almost two months — from Zuccotti Park in New York City’s Financial District.

The police threw away 5,554 books from the Occupy library and destroyed media equipment in addition to removing tents, tarps, and belongings.

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York decided that the NYPD’s actions violated the protestors’ rights under the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments.

The city will pay:

• $47,000 in damages and $186,350 in legal fees for The People’s Library.


• $75,000 and $49,850 in legal fees to Global Revolutions TV for damaging their “computers, wifi hotspots and similarly related live-streaming equipment.”


• $8,500 for trashing the bicycle-powered generators that protestors built to light up the park after police held their other generators.

Occupy Wall Street is a movement, beginning on September 17, 2011 in Liberty Square, that protests the role of Wall Street in the 2007 financial crisis and aims to resist the influence of major banks and multinational corporations.

Here’s footage of the raid courtesy of Casey Neistat:

New York New York and Occupy Wall Street. November 2011

http://youtu.be/pQzRbfN-dYk

Malala, Pakistani Teen Taliban Attempted Killing For Promoting Education, Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize

Bravery In The Face Of Extreme Violence

Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani girl who rose to international fame after the Taliban nearly killed her for her efforts to promote girls’ education, has been formally nominated for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize.


Her name was put forward by three members of the Norwegian parliament from the ruling Labor Party on their website Friday, which was the deadline for nominations.


Malala’s name was put forward because of "her courageous commitment to the right of girls to education. A commitment that seemed so threatening to the extremists that they chose to try and kill her," said parliamentarian Freddy de Ruiter on the Labor party web site.

Full Article at NBC Worldnews

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Profile of Malala Yousafzai Pakistani Girl Shot by the Taliban

http://youtu.be/9F5yeW6XFZk

Tables Turned Ironically, Bank Of America Gets Foreclosed On By Homeowners Over Wrongful Foreclosure

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